TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Yes, Sharon. Insert an :Index statement in your .cnt file. Open it in
notepad, then type :Index otherfile.hlp where otherfile.hlp is the name of the
Help file that's index keywords you want to include in the index. For this to
work (as with the JumpId macro), the Help files must be in the same directory.
HTH,
Hope
Thomason, Sharon wrote:
> Thank you to everyone that responded to my last question. I wanted to know
> how to link a topic in another help file to my help file, and I needed to
> do this from the Contents tab. I used the JumpId Winhelp Macro in the
> Contents Tab Composer in Robohelp. It worked great, but now I have another
> problem.
>
> The index entries from the other help file do not show up in mine, so the
> user will only be able to access those topics from the Contents tab. Is
> there any way to pull the necessary information into my Index? And what do
> I do about duplicate entries then? Will this also work for Find?
>
> Thanks a lot. You guys are great!
>
> Sharon Thomason
> Dealer Solutions
> Technical Writer
> 713-361-8489
--
"Ol' Diz knows the king's English. And not only that, I also know the
queen is English."
--Dizzy Dean, baseball great, responding on air to a letter from a
listener who said he didn't know the King's English
